Travel the 70-mile long Osage Nation Heritage Trail in northern Oklahoma and experience some of the state's most unique and beautiful landscapes. The Osage Nation Heritage Trail begins in Ponca City and runs east along Highway 60 through Pawhuska to Bartlesville. It was a Sunday adventure with Gary Noel.

Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in northeast Oklahoma is the largest protected area of tallgrass prairie on Earth, near Pawhuska, where the Pioneer Woman and her family live.

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The Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in northeastern Oklahoma is the world's largest protected area of tallgrass prairie on earth. Terri's dad took us through here it is beautiful and we saw the buffalo herd.

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art will immerse you in the colors of Dale Chihuly's blown glass creations, modern art and traditional European and American works of art. Oklahoma Real Estate OKC Oklahoma City Edmond http://www.lodihagler.com

Muskogee, statue of first girl scout cookie sale

Did you know that the *first* Girl Scout Cookies ever were sold in #Muskogee, #Oklahoma in 1917? They were personally baked by the Mistletoe Troop, and the profits were used to send gifts to doughboys fighting World War I. #GirlScoutCookies, #GirlScouts, #history, #OklahomaStories

Rose Dunn was guilty only of liking the company of outlaws. She was real (some have doubted she existed), and she became known as Rose of Cimarron when she was but 15 years old. There is controversy regarding the role she played in the big battle between lawmen and outlaws in Ingalls, Oklahoma Territory, in 1895. The photo is definitely from the 1890s.

WOMEN: Rose Dunn Rose Dunn was guilty only of liking the company of outlaws. She was real, and she became known as Rose of Cimarron when she was but 15 years old. There is controversy regarding the role she played in the big battle between lawmen and outlaws in Ingalls, Oklahoma Territory, in 1895. This photo is also questioned, some saying it was made by Bill Tilghman, sheriff of Oklahoma’s Lincoln County, for his 1915 movie. The photo is definitely from the 1890s.

Visions of the Wild West bring Tombstone, Arizona, or Deadwood to mind, but definitely not Ada, Oklahoma. But, by the turn of the 20th century, Ada had become the last vestige of the Old West’s wild and lawless desperadoes. Until, that is, on a spring night in 1909, when several dozen churchgoing businessmen broke into the jail, took four men accused in the murder of a former local sheriff—their Masonic lodge brother, no less—and committed the last mass outlaw lynching in U.S. history.

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My great-grandfather was the sheriff in Ada, Oklahoma when these outlaws were strung up in an old barn in town. Deacon Jim Miller and his murderous gang were finally brought to justice by the citizens of Ada in 1909. My grandfather, 19 years old at the time, was present when this picture was taken.

FOUR MEN HANGING: Tamara Logsdon Hawkinson digs up the story behind a found photo of four men hanging in an Ada barn.

Belle Starr was one of the most famous outlaws of the Wild West. Her family assisted the Jessy James gang hide in her family’s farm. When her husband shot a man they were forced to flee and began robbing banks and counterfeiting. She was known for wearing mens clothing and always flaunting her pistols. She was killed with a shot to the back while riding her horse. She became known as the Bandit Queen.

Will Sampson Jr ~ ( 1933-1987 ) Sampson, a Native American Muscogee (Creek), was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. Sampson's most notable roles were as "Chief Bromden" in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as "Taylor the Medicine Man" in the horror film Poltergeist II. He had a recurring role on the TV series Vega$, as Harlon Two-leaf and starred in the movies Fish Hawk, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Orca.

Will Sampson Jr ~ Actor & Activist ( 1933-1987 ) Sampson, a Native American Muscogee (Creek), was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. Sampson's most notable roles were as "Chief Bromden" in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as "Taylor the Medicine Man" in the horror film Poltergeist II. He had a recurring role on the TV series Vega$, as Harlon Two-leaf and starred in the movies Fish Hawk, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Orca.

Will Sampson - Sampson, a Native American Muscogee (Creek), was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. Sampson's most notable roles were as "Chief Bromden" in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as "Taylor the Medicine Man" in the horror film Poltergeist II. He had a recurring role on the TV series Vega$, as Harlon Twoleaf and starred in the movies Fish Hawk, The Outlaw Josey Wales (Ten Bears) and Orca.

Will Sampson, Native American actor. Sampson, a Native American Muscogee (Creek), was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. Sampson's most notable roles were as "Chief Bromden" in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as "Taylor the Medicine Man" in the horror film Poltergeist II (9/27/1933)-(6/3/1987)